Jobim's stunning compositions, with their ingenious mixture of classical and jazz influences, and Gilberto's whispery voice and signature guitar style, which identified the music's rhythmic identity, came to symbolize the core characteristics of bossa.

But, steady on Bono, old son, angels is pushing it a bit, despite the whispery, ghost-like vocals of lead singer Moya Brennan, which sent Americans in particular into a reverie when the Harry's Game theme was featured in the no nonsense film, Patriot Games, starring Harrison Ford.

Opening with the driving rocker "Little Light," the album has an intensity that doesn't let up even through the whispery ballads ("Slippin' Away"), country soul ditties ('I Hate/I Love"), entrancing spirituals (an almost ethereal cover of Sweet Honey in the Rock's classic "Ballad of the Broken Word"), and the closing of a slowed-down acoustic version of the Cars' 1978 hit "Just What I Needed.

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